Calling and Filming Coyotes (New Area)

Calling and Filming Coyotes


Tuesday the 13th of January of the New Year, it’s clear and cold this morning. Loaded the four wheeler into the back of the truck and headed out to the desert to call some coyotes.
Stand one: Walked in about 200 yards, set up and started calling. Twenty minutes passed and nothing showed...heard some coyotes howling in the distance a long way off.
Stand two: Unloaded the four wheeler and got on my way to the stand. This area is new to me, have not called in this area before, found it during deer season...rough ride up this road, nothing but big rocks. Stand two was the same as the first but no coyotes howling and the wind is starting to blow.
Heading for stand three: This area is open sage and full of lots of little ridges and ravines, it’s a big area, looks like there should be coyotes here. Parked my four wheeler and walking down a small ravine so as not to skyline my self. At the bottom, I set my Foxpro in some sage and walk up the bank about 40 yards and sat down with sage around me, but with a good shooting lane left, right and wide open in front of me. I could see for 500 to 600 yards all around... there had to be a coyote here. The distressed cottontail cry cut through the wind and in less than two minute a pair was high-balling it to me, they were flat moving! I turned the camera on, located the coyotes in the view finder and they were nearly on top of me. When they first appeared, they were 400 yards out and closing the gap fast, too fast. The wind was blowing from my left to my right and the way they were going they would soon wind me. I turned the caller off when I first saw them. I think they thought the sound was coming from more to my right. With trying to keep the camera on them and get the gun in position they were darn near on top of me.
I lost the lead dog in the camera, so I barked to get it to stop at 30 yards out, put the cross hair on it's chest and squeezed the trigger, it went down just like all the others have when the 29 gr 17 rem hit. The second coyote took off like a rocket! I tried to stop it with the hurt pup yelp, but he was having none of it and was gone in a blink. I called for 10 more minutes but nothing showed. When coyotes come in that soon to a stand, don't get up for the coyote you just shot, keep calling, another one might show up, I have had it happen many times. Didn't get much film footage this time, sometimes things happen too fast for just one person.
T.Martin